23rd and Iraq, B**ch

I served as a poll-watcher for the Kerry campaign back in November of last year. My partner and I found ourselves in a low-income area of North Philadelphia, and as we roamed the neighborhood on foot, we saw scrawled on a pillar at the edge of a housing development the words, "23rd and Iraq, Bitch." It said a lot, I thought, about what some anonymous person felt about their neighborhood.

But what of the REAL Iraq? According to W., things are going swimmingly, and there's just no way to tell how long we will have to be shipping our young men and women over there to help spread democracy (and have their limbs blown off in the process.) Don't you just have to wonder what kind of alternate reality this man is living in?